Modern Fiction (post 1945)

My favourite of all the books I have written. Tayari Jones From the winner of The Women's Prize winner and New York Times Bestseller An American Marriage. With the opening...

The bestselling French phenomenon now being made into a Hollywood movie. Diane has a charmed life as a wife, a mother and the owner of a literary cafe in Paris...

'You always forget this part, that life regenerates itself underground through the winter, that happiness comes back. You forget that your body has the capacity for joy, that it craves...

Winner of the Australian /Vogel's Literary Award 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when...

'Powerful and moving' RACHEL EDWARDS 'O utstanding' SUSAN LEWIS 'Original and powerful . . . You'll love it' LOUISE BEECH Two families divided by hate A love that will not...

In THE REFUGEES , Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers...

Luke Warren would sleep in the dirt if it meant he could be under the stars. He lives by the laws of nature, and would surely want to die that...

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not...

When William Lowry writes to Emily Byrne- I don't know if you know that you know me- the seventeen-year-old hardly suspects that his life, along with the rest of America,...

Have you ever just clicked with someone? Is there a safer space for secret desires than virtual reality? "Just what you need" WENDY HOLDEN It begins by chance: Leo receives...

Harriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life - a satisfying career, her own flat and a new boyfriend who respects her need for her own space. But then her...

In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach, Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman, and throws them to the sea: My dearest Catherine, I...

"From up here, a half mile above the Earth, everything looks perfect to me " Being a solo flyer made sense to Jerry Battle right from the start. For his...

Michael Roe is trying to give up smoking. The Sunday Times and his girlfriend Hilary. He works in television and plays in cocktail bars, where he can be found on...

How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger - 32 years old, still living with her grandmother and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children - one summer...

Patrick White, a small-time crim, is struggling to make sense of his life in the suburbs. Meeting Sonja, the daughter of a Russian migrant, makes him see that there is...

A new thriller from Barry Eisler featuring Japanese-American assassin John Rain

In 1820 Mary Jones is wrongly convicted of a crime committed by her best friend. From their first encounter as domestic servants in Kent, the two women were unlikely friends,...

Becky Bloomwood is back on form in this hilarious Shopaholic novel by bestselling author Sophie Kinsella Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting...

Shy student Alexandra X to her friends arrives in Naples desperate for adventure beyond the sheltered life she s led. As she explores the sun-soaked Italian city streets, she meets...

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living...

Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship...

A riveting, timely, and terrifying novel from an acclaimed writer who skillfully intertwines the intimate perceptions of Anne Tyler with the dramatic tension of John Grisham. For eighteen years the...

The Costa prize-winning poet and novelist is back with a remarkable novel about love grief, and the power of unlikely friendships 'A master of language.' Hilary Mantel Kate, a grieving,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004. It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her...

Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings. He has been obliged to take early retirement from his job as a librarian due to 'rationalisation' and the new political...

A whip-smart and charming debut novel that brilliantly reimagines Pride and Prejudice, set in contemporary Chinatown, exploring contemporary issues of class divides, family ties, cultural identity, and the pleasures and...

**Order the paperback of Bella Mackie's latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now** THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny, sharp, dark and...

The new sun-drenched summer read from the bestselling author and TV presenter 'Soak up the glamour' PRIMA You're invited to the most glamorous wedding of the year... The guests are...

The Great Gatsby meets The Secret History in this torrid novel of love, lust and deception. Harry and Madeleine Winslow are blessed with talent, money, and charm. Harry is an...

Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and...

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award. In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the...

The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of...

HE'S BACK AND HE'S FUHRIOUS! "Desperately funny . . . An ingenious comedy of errors." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times " Satire at its best ." --Newsweek " Thrillingly...

A lament for the death of print media, the growth of the corporation, and the process of growing old, Juice! serves as a tragi-comedy chronicling the increased anxieties of "post-race"...

A dark, lyrical fantasy blending the world of the Fae with the stories mothers tell to keep their daughters safe. A dark, lyrical fantasy blending the world of the Fae...

'A magnificent beast of a book: epic' Roxane Gay 'Large in scope and heart' Patrick deWitt 'It blew me away' Emma Donoghue 'Unforgettable' Nathan Hill 'A blast' Karen Russell On...

Patrick Gale's early novel, FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric story of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics 'Made me laugh out loud' Sunday Times American Professor Evan Kirby, author...

The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 'Jangly with secrets' Sunday Times 'Funny, inventive, surprisingly moving' Guardian ' Royal Tenenbaums -style saga of dysfunctional family' The Times When Arthur...